New-York tribune., 1887-12-11
LORD DALHOUSlE.
NOTES ON HIS CAREER AND ON LADY DALI
ioIrsIE AND THEIR DEATH.

80. To-, ,yool.s tragedy at lIavrc. IT is still
80 o,. IN say enough and not too much. No
man can trust his Judgment under the mhuchcc
pf n strong feeling. and il would he ldie lof
me IL pretend that ] can write without lceHhg
of the death Of man TO whom l had strong
attachment. i will try TO keep within INC
limits imposed by print, though not perhaps as
they are understood here where the artificial
and conventional are allowed 10 tyIannzc over
much that is human. But | know not who thnt
knew Lord Dalhousie could write of him or think
OF him with Indifference, or who ever saw Lady
Dalhousc withOut admiring h"r.
A ycar ago life seemed to Offer everything 70
both. Down to last week Lord DalhOusles
friends and physicians alike had strong holcs
Of his recovery from the maady that had pcse'
him There was no idea that hers was ho'
good life. And tomorrow they are both 10 po
buried. Lady Dalhousie died at n ho'el u"
Hevre last Thursday, he on the FRIDAY MORNING.
They had lust returned from America lie "eh'
there by medical advice in hope OF regaih'ng
his heoItb. mental and physical. She went with
him. IL was intended they should spend the
winter or p,rt Of it with his brother in Mime
sofa. This was what DR.. Mandcey, one of the
Great London authorities on brain diseases, had
advised and lie had hopes that n winter Of
Quiet il, that climate might restore him. i don't
know why this plan abandoned. They had
sailed from lIavre at the end of September, ana
so were absent less than two months in all.
Lord Dllhousies health had given way twelve
month since under the pressure of anxe;ies abont
his estate He succeeded to The title ald property
in 1880 Before that he had been IN the navy,
which he entered at fourteen. IN 1861, as cadet
on board the training ship Britannia, which he was
afterwarl to command. He was at the top of the
lis, when he left. He passed the best examination
of Iis vaar and was p-Omoted lieu tenant 1867.
His title m those DAYS was Lord Ramsay, aud to
the last he used 10 he known among his old friends
as Ramsay" l. the only name ever heard
in the family circle. He went twice round the
world IN the Galatea with the Duke of Edinburgh
Tn 1874 he was Commander; then Equerry TO the
Duke whom he went TO see married at ST. Peters
burg aud whose hest he atterward was at Brechn
Castle. Tnen he did thing which paints the man
At twenty-seven lie went to study AT oxford. DR..
Jowett the master of Balhoi College, was one of
his friends and LORD Ramsay. though not regn-
larly en- cred 1T the COLLEGE resided there ne stu
dent for TWO years in the wish to I'LL some OF the
gaps in MS education which naval teaching mad
necessarily left. How many men would have done
that But Ramsay did it rs simply and naturally as
be did everything. Then the Prince of Wales asked
him TO take charge OF the Britannia, where two Of
the young Princes we're to he sent HE Bri anna
was stationed at Dartmouth. There he stald. i
think three years. and there it was that he married.
in 1877 Lady Ida lennet youngest daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Tankervile: then and
TO her death one of the most beautiful
women in England, The marriage made
stir in society. for Lord Ramsay was
heir to Scotch estate of 100000 year nnd
n favOrite with royalty, and popular with every
body and she had bean in London drawing
rooms and her type of loyehneSs was such US not
often seen there.
Three years later came the Liverpool election.
early in 1850. Liverpool IS Tory stronghold
Lord Ramsay stood an advanced Liberal, eX-
cited no little comment by promising to vote for
an inquiry into Home Rule. and cane within 1000
votes of winning in total poll of 5000 LADY
RamsaY as the English fashion Is. canva sed for
her husband and cap,ivated the constituency. Al
the general election in April of the same year he
came III as minority member without a contest. 1t
was an eyentful year 10 tim fhree months later
his father died suddenly and he became thirteenth
Earl of DalhOusle
Then began the complications OF his life. He
plunged into politics and lDtO the management of
q great but greatly embarrassed property. lie had
little experience in such matters ani far more on
thnsiasm for the interests of others than his OVID
Ee revolutionlzed the system prevailing on the
Panmure and other He of red extraordinary
concessions to his tenants concessions OF charac-
with their tenants hat difficult they thought.
or some of them thought. He Volunteered All
abatement Of 20 per cent on rem ais aireads mod
crate for the past year. and Is per cent for three
years 10 If this was not enough. he
offered to cancel the lease OF any tenant
who liked to quit his farm and all the farms were
to be revaued With his land already norgaged
and heavily burdened in many ways, he borrowed
more money in order to build better farmhouses
L. e..
had only to ask in order to have, and as Scotch
tenants have at least an average share OF human
nature they asked for great deal few years
brought the inevitable result in financial perplexi-
ties of serious kind. Hc took these he took his
political responsibilities, all too seriously. They
wore him out. His constitution, none too strong
gave way Insomnia tho first symptom, others
followed and for the last year he had taken no part
il affairs. Mr. Gladstone had made him Secretary
for scotland itself an anxious office, and from
time to time he had taken upon himself much other
business in the House of Lords and III the interest
OF his party; all which he had 10 roinquish
Had his health lasted he would have held the
Scotch Secretaryship in the next Liberal Admins
tration with Cabinet rank
Brechin Castle and Panmure the two chief
houses of the variouse states which Lord Dalhousie
owned-sOne 100000 acres In ALL DalhOusie
Castle the ancient of them all. he did not live
IN, nor IN PaDmurc except for few
days at time. Brechin Castle was
bis home. 1t was there that be received Mr..
Gladstone when making the triumphal progress OF
1884 through Scotland. Perhaps you remember
conversation between Mr.. Gladstone and an
American. and what the English Liberal said OF
Washington, and tho letter he wrote about
Washington and the future of America. 1t was at
Brechin Castle that this cOnversation took place,
md there WAS some account OF that picturesque
spot IN letter | wrote az the time. / wr)te per
hans more freely than usual had asked Dal-
bousje. and his answer was Write what you like
and now you like" Taat again was like him. He
might have lived, like the Roman Senator in
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